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Records Show Miers Owned Gun (A .45, even!)
Fox News ^ | 10-10-05 | AP

Posted on 10/11/2005 5:36:03 AM PDT by OKSooner

AUSTIN, Texas — Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers, who once owned a .45-caliber revolver (search), is not licensed to carry a concealed handgun in Texas. State officials refused Monday to reveal whether she has ever been licensed.

Miers' brother gave her the Smith & Wesson (search) handgun when he was worried about her living alone in Dallas. Judge Nathan Hecht of the Texas Supreme Court, a longtime friend of Miers', has said she kept the gun for a long time.

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To: OKSooner
...is not licensed to carry a concealed handgun in Texas...

If she were looking to concealed carry, I don't think she would have chosen that .45 wheel gun.

21 posted on 10/11/2005 6:03:48 AM PDT by gridlock (Eliminate Perverse Incentives)
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To: All

For a good example how Kennedy snookered the anti-abortion element, read this: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1500378/posts

I think it best to keep that example in mind when all of this fuzzy news is floating about.


22 posted on 10/11/2005 6:03:50 AM PDT by WorkingClassFilth (Do you know Landru, Brother?)
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To: Senator Goldwater

---The MSM must be dissappointed that she didn't own slaves.---

According to some she's almost old enough.


23 posted on 10/11/2005 6:06:39 AM PDT by claudiustg (Go Bush! Go Sharon!)
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To: OKSooner

Dianne Fienstein owns a gun too.

So do lots of lefties.

Not saying Miers is a Lefty, but this means nothing.

Maybe we'll find out she once adopted a dog from the Humane Society...and all the dog lovers out there will jump on board.


24 posted on 10/11/2005 6:07:05 AM PDT by Sometimes A River (Serving on a Meals-on-Wheels program is NOT a qualification for a SC nominee. Call your Senators!)
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To: OKSooner

Does it bother anyone else that there is a record on what caliber weapon you own? Is there a database?


25 posted on 10/11/2005 6:12:58 AM PDT by scott7278 (You tryin' to flex on me? Don't be silly.)
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To: Jet Jaguar; Mike Bates
"Hypocrisy is not limited to politicians when it comes to the Second Amendment.

For Example, well-known Washington-based columnist, Carl Rowan, often wrote about the ills of firearms ownership. Until, that is, he shot and wounded a teenager who trespassed on his property.

The white teenaged boy claimed he wanted to try Rowan's swimming pool. Rowan, an African-American, retaliated with deadly force using a firearm.

That's when the news came out that Carl Rowan, gun-control advocate, actually possessed a license to own firearms."


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1490446/posts



26 posted on 10/11/2005 6:16:11 AM PDT by G.Mason
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To: G.Mason

Thanks G.Mason for the link.


27 posted on 10/11/2005 6:17:55 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: OKSooner

"is not licensed to carry a concealed handgun in Texas."

So?? This is a set up response...How you know she ever packed concealed?? You only need the license if you conceal!


28 posted on 10/11/2005 6:18:13 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: OKSooner

Fox picked this off the AP wire. It was written by Jim Vertuno (Associated Press Writer). He does a lot of sports and should stick to that.

As was mentioned this isn't news at all, it was talked about last week in a story quoting a former colleague of Miers.


29 posted on 10/11/2005 6:18:58 AM PDT by lrb111 (Minutemen - Doing jobs the White House won't do.)
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To: Jet Jaguar

That would be William Raspberry, right? But I thought he was from the D.C. vicinity.


30 posted on 10/11/2005 6:19:08 AM PDT by printhead
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To: printhead

Nevermind, it was Carl Rowan.


31 posted on 10/11/2005 6:20:05 AM PDT by printhead
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To: Puppage

Good point! How the hell are they suppose to know!!


32 posted on 10/11/2005 6:20:06 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: OKSooner
I admire her choice in a .45 revolver

I heard it wasn't her choice, but that it was a handgun purchased for her by her brother.

I STILL want a tried and true, DEMONSTRATED hard-core conservative who FULLY supports our 2nd Amendment rights.

When I hear that she went out and bought an AR-15, I'll feel more comfortable about this lady's conservative qualifications.

In the mean time, how about withdrawing Harriet's name, and putting up the NRA's Sandra Froman for the Supreme Court?

33 posted on 10/11/2005 6:26:53 AM PDT by DocH (Gun-grabbers, you can HAVE my guns... lead first.)
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To: scott7278

No data base.

This was just a story passed on by her brother, i believe.


34 posted on 10/11/2005 6:35:23 AM PDT by Graycliff (Long haired freaky people, need not apply.)
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To: Jet Jaguar
Absolutely my pleasure.


Would anyone listen, I would shout this from the roof tops and have it as the headline in every "newspaper" [?] in the nation ... daily. ;)



35 posted on 10/11/2005 6:35:46 AM PDT by G.Mason
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To: Condor51

I agree with you, just because she owned a 45 doesn't mean a hill of beans. I what to know her true feelings about the right to bear arms! How would she have ruled in the Emerson case? How would she rule in cases dealing with 50 Cal's or semi-auto rifles with 30 rd magazines/collapsible stock? Big deal like you most excellently point out Di-Fi owns a gun. Americans need to know where she stands on the 2nd Amendment!


36 posted on 10/11/2005 6:35:46 AM PDT by 2001convSVT
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To: G.Mason
That's when the news came out that Carl Rowan, gun-control advocate, actually possessed a license to own firearms.

IIRC, he didn't have a license and was only able to avoid prosecution by asserting his Patent of Nobility.

37 posted on 10/11/2005 6:36:59 AM PDT by Grut
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To: OKSooner
Big gun for a little Lady. N-frame smith 45 is a large pistol, unless it was one of the old 1917's.
38 posted on 10/11/2005 6:38:34 AM PDT by Graycliff (Long haired freaky people, need not apply.)
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To: OKSooner

It was given to her, she owned it briefly, developed no enthusiasm, took no training.

Some enthusiast.

Sounds like my left-of-Steinem gun-fearing aunt.


39 posted on 10/11/2005 6:40:15 AM PDT by Atlas Sneezed (Your FRiendly FReeper Patent Attorney)
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To: Graycliff
No data base.

This was just a story passed on by her brother, i believe.

Thank you.

40 posted on 10/11/2005 6:41:26 AM PDT by scott7278 (You tryin' to flex on me? Don't be silly.)
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